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Her tweets are terse and insightful.terse = short (using few words)
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She doesn't care for his terse manner.terse = using words sparingly in a way that seems unfriendly
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"I said." My voice is terse. "I am looking for someone." (source)terse = concise (without extra words or expression)
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"She'll be back in twenty-five minutes," the clerk said tersely. (source)tersely = using words sparingly
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I whispered, and got a terse, "Sh-h!" (source)
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A week later Westerberg received a terse card with a Montana postmark:† (source)
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A year isn't a while, Amir!" she said, in a terse voice so unlike her.† (source)
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Percy said tersely, fingering his prefect badge.† (source)
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One Sunday, two weeks after the occupation, Aureliano entered Gerineldo Marquez's house and with his usual terseness asked for a mug of coffee without sugar.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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Fannie Merritt Farmer was relentlessly pragmatic — cut and dried, in a terse New England way.† (source)
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She took one look at the situation and said tersely, "Call her mother."† (source)
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His first line of defense was frowning terseness.† (source)
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We all exchange terse nods then focus our attention on the temporary stage that is set up before the Justice Building.† (source)
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She spoke tersely, as if wishing to put the topic behind us as quickly as possible.† (source)
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This terseness, this short-windedness, might mean that she was afraid of something; afraid of being called 'sentimental' perhaps; or she remembers that women's writing has been called flowery and so provides a superfluity of thorns; but until I have read a scene with some care, I cannot be surewhether she is being herself or someone else.† (source)
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Trudy waited for some elaboration from Ida, but understood soon enough that she stood in the presence of a terse oracle indeed.† (source)
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